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RE: 🎨 Assimilation - original painting

in #art7 years ago (edited)

I find it familiar, but don't think I've seen it. Great to include the process: such as elements of decalcomania (also a staple of some of my work).

You should not dismiss your work (third rate fantasy novel) because that sort of evaluation should be left to the Critics of Cultureburg who use exactly that description to down-rate anything we do (that is, fantastic realists, imaginative realism, magic realism etc) while pouring buckets of accolades out over some crap that looks like drugged space-monkeys created (or flung, like their shit, onto a canvas). And yes, I am a critic too!

Some years ago a dear friend, the late J. Brooks Joiner, a well respected curator who had led several great museums and galleries in Canada and the USA, broke through this cycle by giving space to ILLUXCON in the Allentown Art Museum. Now Brooks was not some backward curator on the fringes of the art world. His knowledge, and his tastes, were eclectic. For example, as director of the Vancouver Art Gallery he vigorously defended a show he mounted that included "Piss Christ" by Andres Serrano against a hostile press. He friended Patrick Wilshire, the founder of Illuxcon (who is also in my circle in the Visionary Art Network) and gave him space at the Allentown Art Museum in 2012.

“All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination?” --Carl Jung

A long story that maybe should be part of a blog post, including links to artspeak.